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Representative Democracy and the Implementation of Majority-Preferred Alternatives

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
In this paper, we contrast direct and representative democracy. In a direct democracy, individuals have the opportunity to vote over the alternatives in every choice problem the population faces. In a representative democracy, the population commits to a candidate ex... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Voting; Decision Choices and Conditions
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Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Representative Democracy and the Implementation of Majority-Preferred Alternatives." Social Choice and Welfare 46, no. 3 (March 2016): 477–494.
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2017 (Revised March 2019)
  • Technical Note

The Future of Mobility: Economic, Environmental, and Social Implications

By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
This technical note explores how advancements in technology are fundamentally transforming how consumers interact with mobility. Transformation is being driven by three independent trends: the emergence of affordable electric vehicles, the development of autonomous... View Details
Keywords: Oil & Gas; Automobile Manufacturing; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Mobility; Inequality; Electric Vehicles; Ride-sharing; Ambidexterity; Transformation; Disruption; Change; Technological Innovation; Transportation; Equality and Inequality; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Distribution Industry
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Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "The Future of Mobility: Economic, Environmental, and Social Implications." Harvard Business School Technical Note 118-008, July 2017. (Revised March 2019.)
  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

play" and "quality in every detail" that was distributed to everyone in the company. Like his father, Godtfred paid careful attention to every aspect of the business, applying, for example, his knowledge of material science... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 29 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

distributions. Instead, after comparing 17 different measures, we find that a measure comprised of two separate variables—called the Ortega parameters—reflect the best-fitting model for our dataset of over 3,000 income distributions at... View Details
Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser
  • 25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

systemic challenge, of course, not just to business, but to education, law, policy, and culture. Moreover, business and government leaders, working together, also face massive challenges that they have not sufficiently confronted before,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • April 2023
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Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams
OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry
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Chen, Lucy, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession." JAMA Internal Medicine 183, no. 4 (April 2023): 350–359.
  • 22 May 2012
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http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Michael L.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2023
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Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

policy: An active national government with a desire to achieve an equitable distribution of income and wealth; a generous social welfare system financed by taxes; and a shared structure of corporate control... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 28 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

concluded that replacing a boss who was in the bottom 10 percent of the distribution with a boss who was in the top 10 percent had the same effect as adding another whole worker to a nine-person team—a huge effect for such a small... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems must demand such information from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

revolutionary, rather than evolutionary, innovation. This note outlines a process for studying extreme consumers-consumers who fall in both tails of a normal distribution of customers-with needs, behaviors, attitudes, and emotions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2003
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The Future of IT Consulting

communicating with warehouse computers, which in turn directly communicate with manufacturer computers, and, again in the chain, manufacturers' computers directly communicate with their supplier computers. In addition, computer-to-computer communications can track... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where knowledge and value creation are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

largest, most professionally managed global companies find it hard to predict the success of product launches, and can stumble badly. One estimate is that 90 percent of new fragrance launches fail. Getting the word out to consumers, and getting product through the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules and allows others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

Working Papers Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences Authors: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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